webergrad02 said:
1. I never asked to be a mod or wanted to be a mod. I think I have eliminated 1 spam post in my time as a mod. I am just a normal guy that likes to talk about his team. This board is my escape from a stressful day.
2. I stated that I agreed with you that there were not 8,000 fans there. I think the reporting of the number of fans was wrong. I disagreed with your being down on the students and community. If you look at the hard facts, community support is up. They are involving local schools and trying to do things in the community.
3. I do not agree with some of the recent decisions our local paper has made. I have some issues with them as an advertiser and client that are not related to their coverage of Weber State basketball. If you look at one of my replies to Roy, you will see that I asked Roy if he could post more than just the link to his story and could post content and the side of the story that many of us fans don't get to see. Yes I welcomed him to the forum and regardless of my relationship with his employer, I think it is good to have him here.
4. You can call it two faced. But many times in life you need to look at the positives along with the negatives.
5. My daughter made that picture for me as a joke. I thought it was funny and made it my avatar.
If you want a big full cup of Pepsi I can bring you that too. Every week we have to have a thread blasting the students. The students on this board are the ones doing all the work and I think they should get some credit.
1) I like to think I'm a fairly normal guy too, maybe with the exception of a 35-year obsession with Weber State. I obviously enjoy getting on this board a hearing what others opinions are positive or not, but don't care for personal attacks, name calling, or whatever.
2) My post was not intended to come off as knocking the efforts of anyone trying improve support or those in attendance, I was simply recognizing that 8K wasn't in attendance and saying it's a shame that out of 25K and 200,000K that only 6K will show up for an important game between two good teams. I just don't see how that comes across so negatively or as a knock on anyone except who's not in attendance. The DEC is an incredible facility; Weber has a great, history-rich program; Weber had a special year last season; Weber recently sent the best player to the NBA to ever come out of the BSC; Weber, by far, leads the BSC in attendance and all this is Great, Great, Great! Weber's marketing and promotion has gotten much better than, say, 10 years ago and yet with all this, I just struggle understanding why they can't get another 6K support from a sizable student body and community.
3) I agree it's good to have Roy here but I also believe it's invaluable to have the Standard involved too. The Signpost is important, especially for those on campus, but the Standard is the same to the community. I understand the politics of business and know there are many who have issues with the Standard or certain staff members but they are the local media and about the only media who will give Weber the time of day.
4) Agreed, that's why I took exception after ignoring your initial "Eeyore" reference, posting a few positive posts, and then being called an "Eeyore" again after basically agreeing with others that 8K weren't actually in attendance. It seems to be a really touchy subject (tickets sold vs actual attendance) so how about I just try and keep my mouth shut about it?
5) Sorry for the avatar reference, anything your child makes for you (as a joke or not) shouldn't be made fun of.
uke: Don't bother with the full glass of milk Saturday, I'm fine and comfortable living in reality, besides I'm a Pepsi drinker and....wait for it...the DEC is a Coke shop.
